brow
noun
[ braʊ ]
• a person's forehead.
• "he wiped his brow"
• the summit of a hill or pass.
• "the cottages were built on the brow of a hill"
Similar:
summit,
peak,
top,
mountaintop,
crest,
crown,
tip,
head,
pinnacle,
apex,
vertex,
apogee,
Origin:
Old English brū ‘eyelash, eyebrow’, of Germanic origin. Current senses arose in Middle English; compare with brae.
brow
noun
• a gangway from a ship to the shore.
Origin:
mid 19th century: probably from Norwegian bru, from Old Norse brú ‘bridge’.
